I’d my first interaction today with Tony Wasserman - Executive Director, Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI) and learnt a bit about OpenBBR (Business Readiness Rating) - a model for rating open source software. I totally agree with the idea behind this project and its cause. With various open source stack certifications in the offering it was getting clear enough that someone is taking a lead on looking into how to make open source more usable and acceptable in places where there’s a higher emphasis on quality and …

I’ve been keeping myself busy (hence, no posts in past three weeks) with RoR development on a small project which I’ve taken along with my three person team. Its been fun so far; and working with Ruby on Rails (RoR) is an added bonus. The rapid development approach of RoR really drives the agility through the project. It reminds me of words like agile, rapid, RAD, scrum, etc. Its fantastic. But there is a learning curve especially when you aren’t so familiar with the underlying scripting language such as …